25 days of Thankful

25 Days of thankfullness





1. Windows open on Nov. 1


2. I'm thankful for my kiddos! I appreciate them each more now as one of Zoe's classmates brothers just died. He was 11. Life is short. Little things I tend to yell about are so petty and not worth it anymore. I'll be saying I love you a lot more now!
3. Family Fued tournaments


4. Coffee Dates with good friends


5. Shopping for Shoeboxes to show the Love of God


6. Friends you can always count on!


7. Lunch date with my favorite 6 year old!


8. Cooperative daughter on airport run.

9. Quality time spent with 92 year old grandmother

10. My Husband!!! Welcoming him home!

11. Baby Norah ... becoming an aunt- again!


12. Christmas Cards, designed, signed and ordered


13.Leaves raked and jumped in-Great Fall photos


14. Morning "playdate" with good friends


15. First IMOM cookbook "published".


16. Christmas cards stuffed and stamped! Waiting by door to mail- Before Thanksgiving!


17. Mornings with 45 women, crafts and cooking tips


18. 70 new recipes to try!


19. Clean attics and play forts


20. 3 more Christmas Presents bought! Only 5 more to go!


21. Thanksgiving shopping done.


22. Crafts with my 2 favs


23.Time spent with Family!


24. Thanksgiving! Food, Family and Friends!


25. A week day off as a family!

Happy Fall!

We've had a wonderful last few weeks! Here are some pictures from our last few weeks. It included a couple of zoo's, last class of ballet and pumpkin pickin at the wildlife adventure. We are really just enjoying this weather so there is probably more pictures then words to describe our days! How are you spending your Fall?

Wow!

Just Wow! Where has the time gone? It's been forever since I caught everyone up on my life so here's our past 2 months in a nut shell. We'll start with some fun pictures from the summer and then go onto more specifics below.

August has become a bittersweet month for me since Zoe started school.

Of course to end summer we always do some fun things that Zoe wants to do and this year her request was bowling... I'm not a fan, but it really wasn't that bad and Zoe had a great time as well!

Back to school, in first grade! She has an amazing teacher! She's a first year teacher and soo full of energy!

We struggled a little at the beginning of the year with some talking over the teacher and then some tears came with the new reading groups and the daily reminder of the loss of her best friend who moved away, but we're not just adjusting, we're excelling!

I've signed up to be the class room mother for her class and so have been on the hunt for some good Halloween party ideas for the party coming up.... I'm thinking Ghost bowling well a slight variation of that... I've bought those fake decorator pumpkins as the bowling ball to add a bit of a challange. Might be fun, I hope... now I just need to decide on a craft... any ideas?

Of course with Zoe going back to school again, Lexi felt she needed to as well, so we've got her in preschool 2 days a week now for a couple of hours....

Which means 4 free hours a week for me! What to do? what to do?

Well.... what I've done for those 4 hours is nothing, well kinda! Granted it's only been about 3 days into it but I've enjoyed it immensly. I've just been enjoying some me time. I had no idea how much that rejuvinates me! Wow! It's been amazing... I've read a book and had some coffee, caught up on some tv shows that I'd been meaning to watch and yesterday was my favorite thing yet....

We used to have a fire pit for our yard that we loved, but unfortunately we didn't love it as much as the thieves that took it from our yard did, so we have been on the hunt for a new one. Our neighbor was having a garage sale and sold us his... this is what it looked like...before I got a hold of it that is : )

This is what it looks like now! What a difference a little paint and a couple hours makes!

Soo excited to use it in our annual tradition of trick or treating at our house. The girls look forward to sitting around it in their costumes or sometimes just pajamas to pass out candy and tracts to the local trick or treaters and of course drinking homemade hot chocolate! It's really one of Zoe's favorite things we do in the Fall actually, so we were soo thrilled to surprise her with our new purchase especially since she had been asking what we were going to do on that night without it because for her that just makes Halloween! Now if only we had their costumes decided on.... well I've got some more time.

o that's us in a nutshell... with a few things lSeft out here or there, but that's about all I got today. So, here's to a wonderful weekend!

Salt and Pepper

Grandpa got the girls goats! Lexi wanted a "fuzzy goat" for her 3rd birthday and ask Grandpa for one everyday for about 2 months before her birthday and so finally after much searching this is what he found for her and Zoe. The girls named them Salt and Pepper and they are Fainting goats and he even made them little halters so they can walk with them and they had a great time! Grandpa is the best!

Beat the Heat... with a laugh

After a week of 100 + degree weather ....this is appropriate

Ely in June

Wow! What a crazy last couple of weeks! We went on Vacation to Ely, Mn and LOVED every second of it! From the "water high fives" from the boat to the beautiful waterfalls, short hikes, long days of fishing and the wonderful week of family memories!
So, to save us all some time b/c pictures really are worth 1000 words, here are some favs from the trip! Though to see more please click here

A Week of Firsts

This week has been a week of Firsts for Lexi... first week of swim lessons and first trip to the dentist.

She liked the dentist thanks to the toys she gets afterwards, she picked a mini camera and a little bracelet and she was even thrilled with her new toothbrush and toothpaste. Well, till she tasted it that is. She's not a fan Bubble Fruit Flavor, but hey who is.

She liked the swim lessons she started on Monday that will go for 10 days.

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well, she liked them until yesterday when the tears started and again today when she had to be thrown in from the diving board, but she promises me tomorrow she'll jump off the board herself, we'll see.

This is her standing on the diving board crying for mommy! So sad! Then they picked her up and threw her in!

I just have remember that she's only 3 and I don't even jump off the board at 29, so we'll just call her my daughter and move on. But here are some fun pictures of the past week.

We spent Memorial Day at "The K" with the Vincents watching the Royals lose 10-8 against the Angels.

We watched the movie Gulliver's travels in the backyard with a borrowed projecter with Aunt Esther and Uncle Reagan and had a great time as we celebrated Zoe's finishing Kindergarten. Zoe likes to watch movies in style on the hammock! Smart girl!